I took the T downtown last night to meet up with John, Mike, and Kate for the Dead Can Dance show at the Orpheum. (Show: very good, though marred by the Orpheum’s management inexplicably not turning on the air conditioning, leaving a packed house full of roasting, sweaty, mostly-goth and mostly-tattooed DCD fans who [...]
Kate and I took Friday and Monday off and spent the long weekend helping my folks move most of my grandmother’s stuff (as well as my grandmother, temporarily) up to the family compound in Maine. Packing up the pickup truck on Friday proved a hot, sunburning kind of task, and banging my healing finger [...]
Yesterday marked the first sustained downtime I’d had in a while. It’s been a motion-filled, blast-and-a -half kind of week.
Last weekend was Baitcon. Kate, Jeff, Glen, and I all carpooled in Glen’s car, chatting on the way about relationships and being in high school and books we’ve read. I succumbed to temptation [...]
Kate and I did an awful lot this past weekend. Friday afternoon we drove down to Philadelphia, leaving only 3 hours after we’d intended to because of multiple tempests in multiple teapots at work. Kate was about ready to punch everyone in the world before we took off, but the drive down was [...]
Kate was to fly out yesterday on a pair of United flights, one from MHT -> IAD, and one from IAD -> SFO, much like the pair of flights I travelled on.
United was kind enough to phone our house at 6 a.m. yesterday and deliver an automated message that the flight from IAD -> SFO [...]